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Escape the mask
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David Ward |
Courage and loyalty win out over brute power as Coriko and Pippa save themselves and other enslaved children from the oppression of the wearers of the Mask. Forced to mine the sands of Grassland unde… |
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
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Elliot Aronson,Carol Tavris |
At some point we all make a bad decision, do something that harms another person, or cling to an outdated belief. When we do, we strive to reduce the cognitive dissonance that results from feeling t… |
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The modulated scream
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Cohen, Esther |
This book provides an integral, readable account of changing attitudes toward pain in late medieval Europe. Since pain itself cannot be known, the book looks at pain by chronicling what people wrote … |
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Confronting evils
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Claudia Card |
"In this new contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetr… |
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The politics of prisoner abuse
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David P. Forsythe |
"When states are threatened by war and terrorism, can we really expect them to abide by human rights and humanitarian law? David Forsythe's bold analysis of US policies towards terror suspects after … |
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A mental healthcare model for mass trauma survivors
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Metin Başoğlu |
"Mass trauma events, such as natural disasters, war and torture, affect millions of people every year. Currently, there is no mental health care model with the potential to address the psychological … |
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The inquisitor
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Mark Allen Smith |
"Geiger has a gift: he knows a lie the instant he hears it. And in his business--called "information retrieval" by its practitioners--that gift is invaluable, because truth is the hottest thing on th… |
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Vampire's kiss
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Veronica Wolff |
Drew continues her Acari training in hopes of becoming a Watcher and being paired with a Vampire agent, but her first assignment quickly becomes more than she bargained for when she goes undercover t… |
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The torture papers
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Karen J. Greenberg |
"The Torture Papers consists of the "torture memos" and reports written by U.S. government officials to prepare the way for and to legitimize coercive interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guanta… |
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The lie
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Hesh Kestin |
Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools--or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful, the controversial Israeli attorney specializes in defend… |
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Poison flower
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Thomas Perry |
Protecting a man wrongly charged with the murder of his wife, Jane Whitefield is shot and abducted by the real culprits, who threaten to kill her if she does not reveal her client's whereabouts. |
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At the side of torture survivors
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Christian Pross,Sepp Graessner,Norbert Gurris |
"Available for the first time in English, At the Side of Torture Survivors provides an intimate portrait of the difficulties facing torture survivors and the therapists who strive to help them. Writt… |
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Standard operating procedure
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Philip Gourevitch,Errol Moris |
Collects the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the controversial digital photographs from Abu Ghraib, in a collaborative account of Iraq's occupation that reveals how it is be… |
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The shattered lens
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Jonathan Alpeyrie |
"Discover a gripping and harrowing tale of war and torture from the man who lived it in this powerful memoir by the celebrated war journalist who not only documented over a dozen conflict zones world… |
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Mainstreaming torture
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Rebecca Gordon |
"The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in this country had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some people i… |
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Democracy now!
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David Goodman,Amy Goodman,Denis Moynihan |
A celebration of the acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy now! and the extraordinary movements and heroes who have moved our democracy forward. Amy Goodman, along with her journalist… |
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Inszenierte Bedrohung
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Maja Bächler |
Folterszenen werden zunehmend Bestandteil US-amerikanischer Kriegs- und Terrorismusfilme. Opfer und Täter werden entweder US-amerikanisch oder islamisch-arabisch markiert. Maja Bächler zeigt am Beisp… |
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Drummond takes a hand
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Alan Irwin |
When Sheriff Will Drummond's brother Clint is tortured and murdered by outlaw Luke Brent, Will quits his job and sets out to find the killer. Learning that Brent's father, Eli, owns a ranch in a vall… |
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The United Nations Convention against torture
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Elizabeth McArthur,Manfred Nowak |
xxvi, 1649 p. ; 24 cm |
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O riso dos torturados
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Jorge Fischer Nunes |
Livro mais famoso de Jorge Fischer Nunes (Porto Alegre, c. 1936; Porto Alegre, 05 jun. 1987), relata, em textos curtos, cenas de humor ocorridos durante a repressão feita pela ditadura militar brasil… |
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